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Whether they call it evil and sin with the Christians, or ignorance and immaturity with the Hindus, or insufficiency of the good with the Platonic thinker, or weakness and failure, or the blindness of materialism, the presence of deplorable or horrible or criminal tendencies need not be denied. They are in the world, but then, other better nobler and purer tendencies are also there.

-- Notebooks Category 11: The Negatives > Chapter 3 : Their Presence in The World > # 12